Pavel Pepperstein. Miracles in the swamp
ARTinvestment.RU   20 апреля 2016

In the Gallery "Regina" opens tomorrow an exhibition of works by Pavel Pepperstein 2015-2016

the Gallery "Regina"
21 April — on may 29 2016
Moscow, 4-й Syromyatnichesky lane, 1

In the Gallery "Regina" opens tomorrow the exhibition is one of the most famous contemporary artists Pavel Pepperstein — "Miracles in the swamp", which will showcase works created in 2015-2016.

the Project of Pavel Pepperstein always excite the imagination. The many facets of his personality surprises and delights, and the energy with which he performs in the new role, not afraid to experiment is encouraging. He became famous in the art world of smart graphics, among writers — novels and psychedelic lyrics, he acted as a Director and a musician, and in this year he tried himself in the role of a fashion designer.

Pavel Pepperstein about the exhibition "Miracles in the swamp"

In the book Walter Benjamin's "On Kafka" in different ways discussed the hate Franz Kafka felt in regards to the story. Aversion to history (apprehensions) is a really interesting phenomenon that deserves careful consideration. In our days the topic is gaining urgency in light of the fact that "the end of history", declared the postmodern ideology that clearly did not take place @the mdas in any case, did not take place in the sense in which this term was invested postmodernists.

Postmodern utopian thought "the end of history" as the triumph of the Museum, the triumph of the principle of museumification. In recent years we are witnessing the widespread collapse of this principle — barbaric destruction of ancient values, miraculously survived till our times ungrateful. Moreover, this destruction is carried out in absolutely different spheres: it is enough to compare the activities of ISIS or the Taliban with the activities of the art-вандалов that with pleasure pririsovyvat worms and other attributes the collapse to the paintings of Bruegel (the Chapman brothers), breaking an ancient Chinese vase, and the like. Thus, the story continues in the very rough and uncouth forms, which some time ago seemed firmly consigned to the past. Strangely enough, it is an aversion to the past is the guarantor of the continuation of the story. If the past causes the need for such aggressive action — so it is alive.

the Story continues, but then again there is a place for those feelings that had Kafka. However, this Prague writer believed that there is power in the world that is able to resist history. This force Kafka meant by the word "swamp" (or "deboto" in Yiddish). Swamp centrostorico by nature, it will sink and drown all the bold projects of transformation, all the colonization and liberation impulses — roughly speaking, drowning in a swamp and bogged down all. In everyday and political language this word is used usually in a negative value, however, Kafka, postulancy wise mystic, of course, right: the swamp — is our only hope, because the events of our day once again prove to us that "there is nothing more disgusting than the story" (Kafka's words). The wisdom of Prague hypochondriac: a sharp antagonism with any prospective discourse, which, for example, is the discourse of Suprematism. So, if you look a couple of the most-minded against each other opponents, it — Malevich and Franz Kafka. Phantom dialogue, or, more precisely, the debate between these irreconcilable points of view staging this exhibition. Behind Malevich are Supreme, architects, politicians, managers and other agents active abstraction. Behind Kafka — flowering Lotus swamp (and swamp logo), Fagot, gorlum, master Yoda, peat bog fairies, farmers, books, mushrooms, Museum collections, and more. Who will win?

In fact, this Gladiator duel — fiction. Between Malevich and Kafka have more in common than it might seem at first glance. The swamp — is a territory (including the territory of thought), where surface and depth are reversed. In Kurt Vonnegut's novel "cat's Cradle" army chiefs put before the scientists task — to invent a universal remedy against the marshes, which sucks battalions. Scientist named Henniker invent such a tool, the so-called "ice-9", instantly freezing any liquid viscosity. At the end of the novel "ice-9" freezes the whole Earth: life itself is a swamp, and antibalance means mechanically destroys all life. "Ice-9" — this is the sort of hypercupremia, and Henniker than-то reminiscent of Malevich or the British colonialists in India, proud of its antibioti program. And yet the history of the swamp no more than a phantom, but its own swamp, the essence will not change (29.03.2016).

Source: press-релиз gallery "Regina"